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Wise Imagination

  • Pascal Mercier
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The Novelist’s Lexicon
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Courage of Words xi
  4. Preface: Apt Words xiii
  5. A
  6. Adumbrated 1
  7. Aletherature 2
  8. Amen 4
  9. Anonymity 4
  10. Autofiction 5
  11. Available 7
  12. Awareness of Banality 8
  13. B
  14. Balagan 10
  15. The Banana Republic of Letters 11
  16. Beauty 12
  17. Bildungsroman 13
  18. Breton 14
  19. Bricoleur 15
  20. C
  21. Catin 17
  22. Chaff 18
  23. Cinderella 19
  24. Creature 23
  25. Cunnilingus 24
  26. D
  27. Disappointment 26
  28. Discipline 28
  29. Dream 29
  30. E
  31. Échapée 31
  32. Evolution 32
  33. F
  34. Faire 34
  35. Fille 35
  36. Furniture 37
  37. H
  38. Happiness 38
  39. Harmony and Reconciliation 40
  40. Hedonism 42
  41. Heretic 43
  42. Honesty 45
  43. I
  44. “I” 46
  45. Identities 47
  46. Wise Imagination 49
  47. India 49
  48. Insomnia 50
  49. Island 53
  50. L
  51. To Last 55
  52. Laughter 56
  53. Lies 58
  54. Loyalty 63
  55. M
  56. Mariquita 65
  57. The Meaning of a Word 67
  58. The Strolling Mirror 67
  59. N
  60. No 70
  61. No Why 73
  62. Nomad 74
  63. The Novel as Web 76
  64. Novel/Life 77
  65. What Is the Novel? 78
  66. Novice 80
  67. P
  68. Paralipomena 81
  69. Pathos 83
  70. Phantom 84
  71. Physical 85
  72. Plague 87
  73. (The) Present 87
  74. R
  75. “Real” 90
  76. The Real 91
  77. (Holy) Russia 93
  78. S
  79. A Successful Sentence 95
  80. Shadow 96
  81. Signed D.C. 98
  82. Silence 99
  83. The Depopulated Skies 100
  84. Suffering 102
  85. T
  86. Terroir 104
  87. U
  88. Un- 106
  89. Unknowable 108
  90. The Unreal 109
  91. W
  92. Waiting/Attention 112
  93. Woman 113
  94. The Word Word 114
  95. “Words, Words, Words” 116
  96. Work 117
  97. Y
  98. Yusuf 120
  99. Z
  100. Zorby 122
  101. Contributors 125
  102. Index 143
  103. Backmatter 147
https://doi.org/10.7312/vill15080-035

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Courage of Words xi
  4. Preface: Apt Words xiii
  5. A
  6. Adumbrated 1
  7. Aletherature 2
  8. Amen 4
  9. Anonymity 4
  10. Autofiction 5
  11. Available 7
  12. Awareness of Banality 8
  13. B
  14. Balagan 10
  15. The Banana Republic of Letters 11
  16. Beauty 12
  17. Bildungsroman 13
  18. Breton 14
  19. Bricoleur 15
  20. C
  21. Catin 17
  22. Chaff 18
  23. Cinderella 19
  24. Creature 23
  25. Cunnilingus 24
  26. D
  27. Disappointment 26
  28. Discipline 28
  29. Dream 29
  30. E
  31. Échapée 31
  32. Evolution 32
  33. F
  34. Faire 34
  35. Fille 35
  36. Furniture 37
  37. H
  38. Happiness 38
  39. Harmony and Reconciliation 40
  40. Hedonism 42
  41. Heretic 43
  42. Honesty 45
  43. I
  44. “I” 46
  45. Identities 47
  46. Wise Imagination 49
  47. India 49
  48. Insomnia 50
  49. Island 53
  50. L
  51. To Last 55
  52. Laughter 56
  53. Lies 58
  54. Loyalty 63
  55. M
  56. Mariquita 65
  57. The Meaning of a Word 67
  58. The Strolling Mirror 67
  59. N
  60. No 70
  61. No Why 73
  62. Nomad 74
  63. The Novel as Web 76
  64. Novel/Life 77
  65. What Is the Novel? 78
  66. Novice 80
  67. P
  68. Paralipomena 81
  69. Pathos 83
  70. Phantom 84
  71. Physical 85
  72. Plague 87
  73. (The) Present 87
  74. R
  75. “Real” 90
  76. The Real 91
  77. (Holy) Russia 93
  78. S
  79. A Successful Sentence 95
  80. Shadow 96
  81. Signed D.C. 98
  82. Silence 99
  83. The Depopulated Skies 100
  84. Suffering 102
  85. T
  86. Terroir 104
  87. U
  88. Un- 106
  89. Unknowable 108
  90. The Unreal 109
  91. W
  92. Waiting/Attention 112
  93. Woman 113
  94. The Word Word 114
  95. “Words, Words, Words” 116
  96. Work 117
  97. Y
  98. Yusuf 120
  99. Z
  100. Zorby 122
  101. Contributors 125
  102. Index 143
  103. Backmatter 147
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